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  • One thing that never ceases to amaze me when I am working in the developing world is people’s propensity for making due with what they have by finding multiple uses for simple, everyday objects. This girl in the ancient walled city of Harar, Ethiopia whimsically and I must say beautifully illustrated that for me with her use of an old pot lid as a hat.
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  • Mikael Cemetery is just outside of town on an adjacent hillside and below the Christian church of the same name. Ironically, unlike the ancient town it serves, the cemetery has no walls or gates. Therefore, you can expect locals to be not only paying their respects, but also grazing their cattle. <br />
On the hillside in the background you can the ancient walled city of Harar, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2006.
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  • A young man walking to one of Harar’s 82 mosques, no doubt, passes through the Jugol Wall via Buda Gate.
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  • I saw this girl sitting on the giant roots of this old tree and how her bright yellow hijab leaped out of the background. What’s more, it was the perfect complimentary color to the traditional green stove along the wall behind her. After some initial reluctance, she finally decided to let me make a portrait of her and her favorite place.
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  • One of Harar’s ubiquitous ‘wall side’ markets starts to buzz in the warm light of golden hour.
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  • Outside the walls of Harar Jugol (old town), where modernity exists, motorized rickshaws or ‘tuk-tuks’ are the funnest and most convenient mode of transportation.
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  • Like clockwork, the old city springs to life everyday at 3:00 when schoolchildren come pouring back in through Buda Gate.
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  • A local woman glides down one of many ancient, colorful , cobblestone alleyways of Harar. <br />
*Recently, this photograph was one of three winning AWIF images in the International Travel Photography Awards Third Collection.
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  • A family of goats taking a break on the cool, raised concrete outside a shop that was closed for lunch.
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  • Unlike hijabs (head and/or neck scarves worn by muslim women) in Middle-Eastern countries, the women in this tiny muslim enclave in Ethiopia wear vibrant colors just like their non-muslim counterparts across the continent.
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  • A lone donkey seems to be walking home after work, by himself.
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  • Ras Makonnen was Emperor Menelik's cousin and was appointed first ruler of Harar after the emperor's occupation of the city. Ras Makonnen was also the father of the Emperor Haile Selassie.
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  • Two things in this scene really grabbed my attention and inspired me to make this photograph. Comment below what you think they were.
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  • This is the ‘Ge Gar’ (Reception Room) of a traditional Harari House I stayed in for a week. The ‘nadaba’ (raised platforms for sitting) have five different levels and is traditionally hierarchal. As a guest, the family granted me access to all levels save the highest one.
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  • I walked past this butcher shop many times, struggling to find the composition or the mood that I was after. One afternoon as I was trying to suss out a scene, this lady walked up to the window and I was immediately struck by her dress and how perfectly it fit the scene.
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  • Forbidden City; Beijing, China
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  • One of the many doors inside the Forbidden City that has been refurbished and freshly painted.
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  • This section of The Great Wall of China has been incredibly well maintained and is also less crowded with tourists than the Badaling section which is closer to Beijing.
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  • This section of The Great Wall of China has been incredibly well maintained and is also less crowded with tourists than the Badaling section which is closer to Beijing.
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  • The amazing view from one guard tower to the next at the Mutianyu section of the wall.
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  • This old covered tricycle and it's owner can be hired as a taxi to help you find your way through the maze of an old hutong.
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  • The use of contrasting shapes highlights the entryway into a home in Beijing.
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  • Light up any home or office with this special edition triptych of 'Lanterns in Gion'.
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  • There are two distinct types of images in travel photography; those that you plan for, usually in the form of beautiful landscape photographs, and those which come about serendipitously as you wander the streets with your camera and a keen eye. This is a great example of the latter..I made this portrait in the charming town of Hoi An which is draped with the influence of all the seafaring cultures of both Asia and Europe that have been trading here for over four centuries. I was actually walking back to the old French part of town to photograph some of the buildings and architecture I had seen the day before when the lighting wasn't ideal. I took a shortcut through the main market, figuring Asian markets are always a good source of those afore mentioned serendipitous moments. Wait a minute, can you plan for serendipitous moments? Ah yes, the middle path, Buddha would be proud! Anyway, as I came out the other side of the market I saw this old woman walking towards the market on the other side of the street. I knew instantly, I had to take her portrait. I approached her with a smile and my best attempt at hello in Vietnamese. I quickly found out that we weren't going to understand a single syllable of what each other was saying. Given her age in Vietnam, it very likely she actually speaks three or more languages as many of the older generations can speak, French, Chinese or even Russian. Unfortunately, I am no more familiar with those languages than I am with Vietnamese. Fortunately however, I also found out that it really didn't matter. She was one of the sweetest people I met during my two months in Vietnam. We must have had a twenty minute conversation on that sidewalk. A conversation of meaningless words, yet an incredible amount of understanding and laughter. I was definitely intrigued by her. After all, she has lived through several wars, been colonized, seen governments come and go and probably walked to this market everyday for the past sixty or seventy years.
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  • Walking the narrow side-streets of Istanbul in ‘street photography’ mode, I came across this local, inadvertently blending-in with the wall mural he’s leaning against.
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  • I believe this woman was seeking consol or solace from this nun. They are sitting on an old whitewash wall that is part pf the church / convent grounds.
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  • This is an example of an image that I planned for extensively. Having been to this location months prior, I vowed to come back at the perfect time to get this magical shot. That perfect time only occurs around noon in the summertime when a crack in the narrow walls above cast this perfect beam of sunshine on the sandy ground. A tripod and a carefully timed exposure helped capture, what I consider the world's most beautiful and natural sundial.
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